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Finding Aid - Arthur and Marilouise Kroker fonds (P0096)

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Table of contents

Summary information ...... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 4 Notes ...... 4 Access points ...... 4 Series descriptions ...... 4

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Summary information

Repository: Concordia University Records Management and Archives Title: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker fonds ID: P0096 Date: 1975-2017 (date of creation) Physical description: 15.9 m of textual records ca 430 photographs : prints, negatives, contact sheets, slides 31 videocassettes : Betacam, VHS, MiniDV, Hi8 5 digital audio tapes 5 compacts cassettes 24 optical discs : DVD, CD 42 floppy diskettes : 3½-inch 4 posters 3 objects Dates of creation, revision and deletion:

Administrative history / Biographical sketch

Note Arthur and Marilouise Kroker are writers, lecturers, and editors in the area of technology and contemporary culture. Arthur Kroker studied at McMaster University where he received a Ph.D. in political science in 1975. In 1975 he became an assistant professor, and in 1980, an associate professor at the University of . He joined Concordia University's Political Science Department in 1981 as associate professor. In 1988, he was appointed professor of political science. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were founders and editors of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory (CJPST), in 1976 at the . They and the CJPST moved to Concordia University in 1981. The aim of the CJPST is to provide a gathering-point for political, social and cultural theory, both in Canada and globally. It aims to synthesize theoretical reflection and analysis of the public situation, to mediate theory and contemporary history. In 1993 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker relaunched the journal in electronic format on the Internet under the name CTHEORY: Theory, Technology and Culture (http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/home/). Arthur and Marilouise Kroker were also publishers of the New Worlds Perspectives series of monographs in which they were editors of the CultureTexts Series.

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Scope and content

The fonds provides information on the administration and operations of the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, CTHEORY, and New World Perspectives CultureTexts Series. The fonds includes correspondence, manuscripts, journal subscription files, grant files, and financial records. There are copies of CJPST and books from the CultureTextsSeries (New World Perspectives).

Notes

Title notes

Immediate source of acquisition These documents were donated to the Concordia University Archives by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2017.

Alternative form available The MiniDV videocassettes have been transferred from original media. Digital access copies avaliable.

Finding aids Box contents listings are available.

Other notes • Publication status: Published

Access points

• Textual record (documentary form) • Sound recording (documentary form) • Graphic material (documentary form) • Moving images (documentary form)

Series descriptions

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Concordia University Records Management and Archives Page 4 P0096 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker fonds P0096-09-0001 Item - Road Stories for the Flesh-Eating September 30, FutureGalafilm Inc. and Electronic Post 1999 Office P0096-09-0002 Item - Road Stories for the Flesh-Eating 1999 FutureGalafilm Inc. and Electronic Post Office P0096-09-0003 Item - New Panic USAPostModern 1989 Productions P0096-09-0004 Item - Flesh Eaters - Full Master (#3 [199-] Hacking) P0096-09-0005 Item - Exit Culture; Toni Denise P0096-09-0006 Item - Fast Wall; The 99 Year Phone 1999 CallElectronic Post Office; produced and directed by Lewis Cohen P0096-09-0007 Item - Undercurrents: Wired Flesh Show November 29, 9CBC-TV 1996 P0096-09-0008 Item - Pamela Wallin Live: The November 15, KrokersCBC; produced by Wendy Bryan 1996 P0096-09-0009 Item - Digital Dreams [199-] P0096-09-0010 Item - La technologie mangeuse de June 1, 2000 chairGalafilm Inc. P0096-09-0011 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 1 September 4, 2002 P0096-09-0012 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 2 September 11, 2002 P0096-09-0013 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 3 September 18, 2002 P0096-09-0014 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 4 September 25, 2002 P0096-09-0015 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 5 October 2, 2002 P0096-09-0016 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 6 October 9, 2002 P0096-09-0017 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 7 October 23, 2002 P0096-09-0018 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 8 October 30, 2002 P0096-09-0019 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 9 November 6, 2002 P0096-09-0020 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 10 November 13, 2002 P0096-09-0021 Item - POLI 368 - Lecture 11 November 27, 2002 P0096-09-0022 Item - [Katherine] Hayles interview November 2008 P0096-09-0023 Item - Stories For the Flesh-Eating 90s. [199-] Kroker/Kroker/Gibson/Kristian. Master Edits P0096-11-0001 Item - Road Stories : Cyberboy/Slow July 21, 1997 Suicide P0096-11-0002 Item - Hacking the Future 1 and 2 November 9, 1995 P0096-11-0003 Item - Arthur and Marilouise Kroker [2006] meeting with [Sterlarc?] P0096-11-0004 Item - Scanner Interview May 18, 1995 P0096-11-0005 Item - Panic EncyclopediaProduced by 1989 PoMoCoMo

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